ΤΟ HER MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, Our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria, THE LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND ARE BY GRACIOUS PERMISSION INSCRIBED, WITH FEELINGS OF PROFOUND RESPECT AND LOYAL AFFECTION, BY HER MAJESTY'S FAITHFUL SUBJECT AND DEVOTED SERVANT, AGNES STRICKLAND. Page 2, last line, for pessavant read passavant. In several of the Notes in the Life of Matilda of Flanders, read Ordericus for Odericus. 68, last line of text, for Thierry read Turold. 191, line 18, insert a comma after barons. 195, note 2, insert semicolon after sovereigns, and omit semicolon after century. PREFACE. AN announcement of this work, the first volume of which is now submitted to the public, appeared in the Literary Gazette of August 26, 1837, and other leading periodicals of the day, under its original title of "Historical Memoirs of the Queens of England." I had previously had the honour of communicating to her Majesty Queen Victoria, that for some years I had been engaged in preparing for publication the personal history of those Royal Ladies, from many of whom her own illustrious descent is derived; and I was favoured with a most gracious permission from her Majesty to dedicate the work to herself. A long and dangerous illness delayed the progress of the first series. Meantime, the title I had chosen was appropriated by another writer, and under that very title memoirs have been published of some of the Queens whose biographies, in regular and unbroken succession, |